Human Male infertility: A Complex Multifactorial Phenotype

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 418-425

  Singh, Kiran ^a   Jaiswal, Deepika ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

azoospermia; epigenetics; HPG axis; MicroRNA; multifactorial

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EPIGENETICS; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; EPIGENOMICS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 80052730921     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719111398148     Document Type: Review

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